What’s happening today: Gotta think the beer, the laughs and the good times were flowing on that Padres flight from Houston to Denver after Thursday night’s 7-3 come-from-behind win over the Astros.

A six-run, ninth-inning rally was capped by 5-foot-4 Alexi Amarista’s first MLB home run, a grand salami. Which warranted this missive from Elias: “Alexi Amarista was the 1st player since 1969 whose 1st MLB HR was a go-ahead GS in the 9th inning or later.”

I mean, c’mon. Who’s the computer nerd at Elias who thinks up this stuff? Elias, though, should have gone further. Kinda like: “Alexi Amarista is the first Venezuela-born, 5-foot-4, 23-year-old Aries whose first home run was a grand slam hit indoors after 9 p.m. on a Thursday during the summer solstice on the same night as the NBA draft.”

Now that would be something.

Alexi’s big bop aside, the bigger news of the night was delivered by Texan Andrew Cashner. Cashner, in his second start for Pads, pitched a no-hitter for 6 1/3 innings when twitter began raging from San Diego types (that’s you Jay Posner, Marty Caswell, Ben Higgins, et al), debating whether or not radio and TV announcers should mention the words “no hitter” during a broadcast, lest they jinx said no-hitter.

Posner supplied the argument that should have ended the silliness. Vin Scully is not shy about telling viewers/listeners that a no-hitter is in progress. Sully being the GOAT of announcers (Greatest Of All Time), that signals end of debate. An announcer’s job is to inform the public. Please do so and don’t act like what you say has anything to do with a baseball game’s outcome.

Meanwhile, the Padres, the only team in MLB without a no-hitter, are expected to toss their first no-no on April 29, 2122.

Morning tweet

Background: the New Jersey live audience for the NBA draft seemed to be comprised of boys high on a mixture of Mountain Dew, 5-hour Energy and Snickers:

Ray Ratto ‏@RattoCSN

Evidently the NBA is running a day care center at the draft

Morning tweet II

Scott Van Pelt ‏@notthefakeSVP

Denver just took a guy who I think was just shown in an intramural video from Monmouth.

Morning tweet for the stat geek:

@ESPNStatsInfo:

Giants: 1st time in franchise history with 4 straight SHO; 1st team since '95 Orioles (5 straight) to allow 0 R in 4 straight games

While you were sleeping: Germany’s Sabine Lisicki, trying to make up for her country’s choke job in the Euro Cup against the Italians, leads American Sloane Stephens 5-2 in the third set at Wimbledon. Why were care: Lisicki once played Fed Cup at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club.

This date in sports:

1950 - US beats England 1-0 in a world cup soccer game (next win in 1994)

On the tube: 5 p.m., FSSD Padres at Rockies. Hit a game-winning grand slam and you deserve to be in the starting lineup. See Alexi Amarista to be penciled in tonight.